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Un été inoubliable

  • 19941994
  • 1h 22m
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Un été inoubliable (1994)
  • Drama
  • Romance
  • War
Romania in the 1920s. Marie-Thérèse Von Debretsy (Dame Kristin Scott Thomas) refuses the advances of her husband's commanding officer. As a result, the cosmopolitan family is reassigned to a... Read allRomania in the 1920s. Marie-Thérèse Von Debretsy (Dame Kristin Scott Thomas) refuses the advances of her husband's commanding officer. As a result, the cosmopolitan family is reassigned to a dark and dangerous outpost on the frontier between Bulgaria and Romania where their relat... Read allRomania in the 1920s. Marie-Thérèse Von Debretsy (Dame Kristin Scott Thomas) refuses the advances of her husband's commanding officer. As a result, the cosmopolitan family is reassigned to a dark and dangerous outpost on the frontier between Bulgaria and Romania where their relationship and humanity are severely tested.
IMDb RATING
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  • Director
    • Lucian Pintilie
  • Writers
    • Lucian Pintilie(scenario)
    • Petru Dumitriu(novella "La salade")
  • Stars
    • Kristin Scott Thomas
    • Claudiu Bleont
    • Olga Tudorache
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  • Director
    • Lucian Pintilie
  • Writers
    • Lucian Pintilie(scenario)
    • Petru Dumitriu(novella "La salade")
  • Stars
    • Kristin Scott Thomas
    • Claudiu Bleont
    • Olga Tudorache
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    • 6Critic reviews
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    • Awards
      • 2 nominations

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    Kristin Scott Thomas
    Kristin Scott Thomas
    • Marie-Thérèse Von Debretsyas Marie-Thérèse Von Debretsy
    Claudiu Bleont
    Claudiu Bleont
    • Capt. Petre Dumitriuas Capt. Petre Dumitriu
    Olga Tudorache
    • Mme. Vorvoreanuas Mme. Vorvoreanu
    George Constantin
    • Gen. Tchilibiaas Gen. Tchilibia
    Ion Pavlescu
    • Serban Lescarias Serban Lescari
    Marcel Iures
    Marcel Iures
    • Gen. Ipsilantias Gen. Ipsilanti
    Razvan Vasilescu
    Razvan Vasilescu
    • Lt. Turtureanuas Lt. Turtureanu
    Cornel Scripcaru
    Tamara Cretulescu
    Carmen Ungureanu
    Mihai Constantin
    Ioan Gyuri Pascu
      Dragos Pîslaru
      Dorina Lazar
      Beatha Fülop
      Magda Catone
      Manuela Ciucur
      Emilia Popescu
      • Director
        • Lucian Pintilie
      • Writers
        • Lucian Pintilie(scenario)
        • Petru Dumitriu(novella "La salade")
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      Romania in the 1920s. Marie-Thérèse Von Debretsy (Dame Kristin Scott Thomas) refuses the advances of her husband's commanding officer. As a result, the cosmopolitan family is reassigned to a dark and dangerous outpost on the frontier between Bulgaria and Romania where their relationship and humanity are severely tested. —MK2 Films
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        In a 2002 interview for WENN, Dame Kristin Scott Thomas stated that this is the movie of which that she is the most proud and views it as the peak of her career. In a 2015 interview for "Gloucester Citizen", she cited this movie as one of the movies of which that she's most proud alongside The English Patient (1996) and Only God Forgives (2013).

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      Lucian Pintilie's 'Unforgettable Summer'
      It is interesting to judge what place 'O vara de neuitat' (An Unforgettable Summer) plays in the too short cinematography of Lucian Pintilie and to speculate about why he had chosen to make this film in 1994, his second only after the fall of the Communism which had practically silenced for two decades the creative voice of a director who debuted in the 60s and could have become in a different constellation one of the most important creators of the European cinema. While most of his films after 1990 deal either with the Communist era or its repercussions in the process the Romanian call 'transition' this film as well as 'Tertium non datur' made in 2005 (his last by now) connect with the more remote past of Romania, the first half of the 20th century. Both deal with the actions of the Romanian army beyond the borders of today's Romania, both happen in remote places, and place the moral dilemma of the Romanian officers in the center of the action.

      There is one more element in the making of this film that is worth mentioning. The film is inspired by a story written in the 50s by a Romanian writer who was then belonging to the Socialist Realism style (but later became a political opponent and a refugee). So here we have Pintilie, the most famous dissident film-maker of Romania picking up a story written in the Communist era - maybe in a demonstrative manner that tells in a most authoritative voice that bridges with the past should not be completely blown-up.

      'The Unforgettable Summer' is a anti-war drama on the road open by Kubrick's 'Paths of Glory'. Yet it has also another classical source in the Romanian cinema - Liviu Ciulei's 'Padurea Spanzuratilor', the first Romanian movie to have won a major prize at the Cannes film festival. Pintilie's film, with the moral dilemma of the officer hero, making eventually the right decision with the major risk for his career and even life has a lot of similarity in theme and form.

      The cinematographic approach is simple and direct. The film is beautifully filmed, with attention to the detail, and a fluent story telling. Music also playes a role in the narrative structure, the whole action happens between the opening French Can-Can music and the closing 'Eine Kleine Nachtmusik' and in the meantime nothing too nice happens. The horror of the violent actions that happen or are suggested to happen on screen is balanced by the innocent view of the child whose story telling leads the action. Here the innocence is also under pressure as in many other films by Pintilie, so is the destiny of principal heroine superbly acted by Kristin Scott Thomas, who together with her partner on screen Claudiu Bleont give life to the couple of heroes. Her actions cannot cut off sufferings or fix evil, they can only postpone by a second the sentences of history. Is it too much, is it too little? The open question is left to the viewer to answer.
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      • Release date
        • November 11, 1994 (United States)
      • Countries of origin
        • Romania
        • France
      • Languages
        • Romanian
        • French
        • English
      • Also known as
        • An Unforgettable Summer
      • Filming locations
        • France
      • Production companies
        • MK2 Productions
        • La Sept Cinéma
        • Le Studio de Creation Cinematographique du Ministere de la Culture
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      • Gross US & Canada
        • $65,352
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      • Runtime
        1 hour 22 minutes
      • Color
        • Color
      • Sound mix
        • Mono
      • Aspect ratio
        • 1.66 : 1

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